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INDEX 



Remarkable, Mount, a bare rock of 

 precipitous elevation, 103 ; visible 

 nearly sixty miles, 103 ; terminable 

 outpost of Flinder's Range, 103 ; 

 seared with rugged ravines, 103 ; 

 height of, 105 ; often enveloped in 

 clouds and capped with snow, 105 



Rhinodon typicus^ 120 



Rhinolophus megaphyllus. See Leaf- 

 nosed bat 



Rhipidura motacilloides^ 82 



Rhynchus australis^ 215 



Ringia australis. See Grass-tree 



Riverine district, 19 ; rainfall, 19-20 



Rivers and streams, 3, 58-59 ; current- 

 less, 20 ; the Darling, general descrip- 

 tion, 42-44 ; scarce on slopes of Mount 

 Kosciusko, 58-59; many run into Lake 

 Eyre, 108-109 ; high banks of desert 

 stream, 167 ; remarkable holes in beds 

 of, 174 ; fish in river holes, 173 ; dry 

 beds of in Swan River desert, 185 ; 

 have short courses in Port Darwin 

 district, 228 ; head- waters of Adelaide, 

 230 ; low-banked and deep in Port 

 Darwin district, 241-242 



Rocks, remarkable masses in Victoria, 

 68 ; fantastic shapes on Flinder's 

 Range, 104 ; the Cathedral Rock near 

 Quorn, inaccessible pinnacles, 104 ; 

 rocks covered with beautiful mosses, 

 104 ; " sheep rocks " in Port Darwin 

 district, 242 ; huge one in Queens- 

 land, 265 



Rock-wallaby. See Wallaby 



Rosella, or Rose Hill, parrot See 

 Paroquet 



Salt, beautifully white on surface of 

 Lake Torrens, 107 ; dry pans of in 

 Austin's Marsh, 1 91 



Salt-bush scrub, much still left near 

 Adelaide, 96 ; in flower near Lake 

 Torrens, ill 



Salt lakes, in desert of interior. Swan 

 River, 162 ; one 2 miles wide, 191 



Sand flies, a great nuisance at head of 

 Australian Bight, 121 



Sand-ridges, near Flinder's Range, no- 

 il i ; at head of Australian Bight, 1 2 1 ; 

 covered with spinifex beyond Swan 

 River, 161 ; covered with thorn 

 bushes, 193 



Scarlet lory, seen frequently at Fern- 

 shaw, 90 



Sciccna aquila^ the common meagre, 155 



Scrub, near Adelaide, 96 ; mallee-scrub, 

 description of, 97-98 ; dense on high 

 bank of river, 181 ; cane-scrub in 



Swan River desert, 182 ; impassable 



near Port Darwin, 228 ; gigantic ' 



nettle in Queensland, 263 \ 



Seal, fur, formerly abundant in Bass's ' 



Strait, 1 34 ; exterminated by Straits- ' 

 men, 134 ; not found on S -W. coast, 



134; formerly on all parts of coasts \ 



of Victoria and New South Wales, \ 



135 . j 



Seal, hair, formerly found in Bass's \ 



Strait, 134; a western species, 134; < 



reported in the Bight, 1 34 ; still j 

 lingers in King George's Sound, 



135 > formerly on all parts of coasts i 



of Victoria and New South Wales, ' 



135 : 



Seps^ lizard. See Jumping-snake J 



Shark, large basking-shark in Australian I 



Bight, 1 20 ; numerous and dangerous i 



in King George's Sound, 155 ; very - 



large one at Abrolhos, 204 ; accom- \ 



panied by pilot-fish, 203-204; monsters ] 



unknown to science, 205 ; on Great 1 

 Barrier Reef, 303 ; eggs of, 303, 312 ; 

 afraid of man in diver's dress, 309 ; 

 Barrier Reef favourite breeding-place, 

 313 



Sheep, immense flocks of in Victoria, \ 



75 ; seeds imported in wool of merino, \ 



95 ^ 



Shooting, destructive, 6, 33, 135, 147; \ 



parrot, 8 ; wallaby, 37, 105 ; emu -i 

 wantonly shot, 147 ; ducks for a 



living at Albany, 153 i 



Shrike tit. pretty tricks of one at head 



of Bight, 121 ; description of, I2I-I22; '\ 

 habits of, 122 ; great strength of the 



bird, 122 ; has a noisy note, 122 ; ] 



courageous and tame, 122 ; feed on ' 



insects, 122 : 



Snake, see Diamond-snake ; black, \ 



188 ; captures frog, 188 ; poisonous, ; 



192 ; few accidents from, 202 ; native i 



names for, 202 ; aborigines capture ' 



and eat, 202-203 ; very abundant in j 

 Queensland, 264 



Snow, 1 1 ; not uncommon, 11 ; on highest 



summits of Australian Alps a few \ 



months each year, 59 ; often on j 



summit of Mount Remarkable, 105 \ 



Sparid(s^ sea-bream at Abrolhos Islands, \ 

 203 



Sparrow, English, swarms in parts of ! 

 Victoria, 75 ; established in Adelaide 



and Burra districts, 94 ■ 



Species of animals very sharply defined, \ 

 as regards distribution, on certain 



parts of continent, 142 ; absence of ' 



natural barriers to migration of, 148 ; ; 



